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Have to say my first instinct when I read his comment earlier was hackles rising and indignation that he was having a go at Andy. Coming from the man who a few weeks ago said he regretted playing through a backinjury in the spring #doublestandards

I am indeed - need to leave before the weans to get the flight to London City. Boss had no problem with it but doesn't want the staff to know - and if children saw me their parents wd have a field day. Had to ask for it to be even earlier cos of the roadworks on Erskine Bridge. Just makes it all the more fun!

Have to say my first instinct when I read his comment earlier was hackles rising and indignation that he was having a go at Andy. Coming from the man who a few weeks ago said he regretted playing through a backinjury in the spring #doublestandards

god that man makes me sick. I don't think he's been playing through pain for 18 months - winning Olympic gold, a first GS against a top 4 player and Wimbledon. Hardly the mark of a wimp as implied by smugfed. He should just learn to shut the f*** up.

Andy Murray has revealed that the fear of being branded “unpatriotic” led him to risk his vulnerable back during the Davis Cup tie in Croatia in September — and thus move further down the road to surgery.

Murray, who is still unsure whether he will be fit to play the Australian Open in January, has been involved in Davis Cup rows before. Most famously, he was criticised by his own brother Jamie when he withdrew from a 2008 tie against Argentina citing knee trouble.

The pressure was all the greater this year. Not only had Murray taken a two-year break from the Davis Cup – a period in which he landed both the Wimbledon and US Open titles – but Great Britain’s second-string players had earned the team a chance to return to the World Group.

Murray must have gone to Croatia with serious misgivings, however, after a disappointing campaign on the American hard courts ended in straight-sets defeat against Stan Wawrinka in the fourth round of the US Open. Only now has he acknowledged how much pain he was suffering throughout the aftermath of his Wimbledon triumph.

“I decided before Wimbledon that I was going to have the surgery after the US Open,” said Murray, who was speaking at the launch of his new racket, the Head Graphene Radical, at Queen’s Club in London. “Then, obviously, I won Wimbledon so, naturally, my team were like ‘Maybe it’s not the best idea to have it’ and I kind of went along with that.